Kagan

Kagan Structures are revolutionary teaching strategies. Why? Because they create an unparalleled level of student engagement. Kagan Structures create a cooperative and caring class tone by putting students on the same side as they interact in pairs, small teams, and with classmates. Structures ensure every student is individually accountable so no one can hide and take a free ride. Structures create equal participation, which means all students are engaged a much greater percent of the time. In this must-have Kagan reference guide, you get 59 step-by-step Kagan Structures you'll use time and time again. More structures means more tools in your teaching toolbox to create more student engagement, more student learning, and more success! 248 pages.

Make world history an adventure. This book offers activity ideas galore to address students' various learning styles. Students will make posters, draw political cartoons, sing songs, conduct research, create graphs, and role-play events. With these meaningful activities, students are more engaged, more motivated to learn, and more immersed in world history. The book is loaded with great ideas to surpass the Global Studies Standards. The 20 chapters span from Ancient Egypt (4000 BC) to recent events in the modern world. The 100 time-saving reproducible blackline masters come complete with a student-friendly description of the historical topic or period to provide context and meaning. 192 pages.

Take your students on a journey through American History. You'll find more than 1,500 activity ideas to engage your students' multiple intelligences for every period of U.S. history: from early exploration and colonization to entering the 21st Century. With 128 reproducible activities that span the eight intelligences, you'll have your students explore history from multiple perspectives while making the content accessible to your different learners. Students use vocabulary terms to write a story about cowboys and cattle drives, perform a Native American dance, compare and contrast the British and Continental Armies, pen a peace treaty after World War I, write a newspaper report on the death of President Lincoln, create a postage stamp on America's space program, draw a political cartoon about high gasoline prices, sequence events that led to the end of the Confederacy, do a team presentation on the Prohibition, create a timeline of New Deal programs. Includes formative assessment questions for each chapter to ensure students are "getting it." 224 pages.

What do you get when you put the best literacy content together with the best instruction available? Highly motivated and literate students. Elementary teachers and literacy coaches have pooled their experience to bring you these tremendously comprehensive guides covering the five national literacy standards: Comprehension, Word Study, Fluency, Writing, and Vocabulary. But unlike any other literacy program, it delivers the literacy skills with the cooperative learning and active engagement thrills. Your students will use Turn Toss to practice spelling, Quiz-Quiz-Trade to master antonyms, CenterPiece to make their writing more descriptive. These giant resources are brimming with activities, lessons, resources and blacklines making it easy to implement a highly engaging literacy program. Use it as a complete balanced literacy program, or pick and choose activities to infuse engagement into your current language arts program.

What do you get when you put the best literacy content together with the best instruction available? Highly motivated and literate students. Elementary teachers and literacy coaches have pooled their experience to bring you these tremendously comprehensive guides covering the five national literacy standards: Comprehension, Word Study, Fluency, Writing, and Vocabulary. But unlike any other literacy program, it delivers the literacy skills with the cooperative learning and active engagement thrills. Your students will use Turn Toss to practice spelling, Quiz-Quiz-Trade to master antonyms, CenterPiece to make their writing more descriptive. These giant resources are brimming with activities, lessons, resources and blacklines making it easy to implement a highly engaging literacy program. Use it as a complete balanced literacy program, or pick and choose activities to infuse engagement into your current language arts program.

What do you get when you put the best literacy content together with the best instruction available? Highly motivated and literate students. Elementary teachers and literacy coaches have pooled their experience to bring you these tremendously comprehensive guides covering the five national literacy standards: Comprehension, Word Study, Fluency, Writing, and Vocabulary. But unlike any other literacy program, it delivers the literacy skills with the cooperative learning and active engagement thrills. Your students will use Turn Toss to practice spelling, Quiz-Quiz-Trade to master antonyms, CenterPiece to make their writing more descriptive. These giant resources are brimming with activities, lessons, resources and blacklines making it easy to implement a highly engaging literacy program. Use it as a complete balanced literacy program, or pick and choose activities to infuse engagement into your current language arts program.

What do you get when you put the best literacy content together with the best instruction available? Highly motivated and literate students. Elementary teachers and literacy coaches have pooled their experience to bring you these tremendously comprehensive guides covering the five national literacy standards: Comprehension, Word Study, Fluency, Writing, and Vocabulary. But unlike any other literacy program, it delivers the literacy skills with the cooperative learning and active engagement thrills. Your students will use Turn Toss to practice spelling, Quiz-Quiz-Trade to master antonyms, CenterPiece to make their writing more descriptive. These giant resources are brimming with activities, lessons, resources and blacklines making it easy to implement a highly engaging literacy program. Use it as a complete balanced literacy program, or pick and choose activities to infuse engagement into your current language arts program.

What do you get when you put the best literacy content together with the best instruction available? Highly motivated and literate students. Elementary teachers and literacy coaches have pooled their experience to bring you these tremendously comprehensive guides covering the five national literacy standards: Comprehension, Word Study, Fluency, Writing, and Vocabulary. But unlike any other literacy program, it delivers the literacy skills with the cooperative learning and active engagement thrills. Your students will use Turn Toss to practice spelling, Quiz-Quiz-Trade to master antonyms, CenterPiece to make their writing more descriptive. These giant resources are brimming with activities, lessons, resources and blacklines making it easy to implement a highly engaging literacy program. Use it as a complete balanced literacy program, or pick and choose activities to infuse engagement into your current language arts program.

What do you get when you put the best literacy content together with the best instruction available? Highly motivated and literate students. Elementary teachers and literacy coaches have pooled their experience to bring you these tremendously comprehensive guides covering the five national literacy standards: Comprehension, Word Study, Fluency, Writing, and Vocabulary. But unlike any other literacy program, it delivers the literacy skills with the cooperative learning and active engagement thrills. Your students will use Turn Toss to practice spelling, Quiz-Quiz-Trade to master antonyms, CenterPiece to make their writing more descriptive. These giant resources are brimming with activities, lessons, resources and blacklines making it easy to implement a highly engaging literacy program. Use it as a complete balanced literacy program, or pick and choose activities to infuse engagement into your current language arts program.

Become a brain-friendly teacher! Put the power of brain research and theory to work in your classroom. Your students will learn more, learn more quickly, retain and recall more, and like learning more. Dr. Kagan's extensively-researched book distills the world of brain science into 6 essential principles that will align your teaching with how your students' brains naturally learn. For each of the 6 brain-based principles, you will find practical tools, tips, and structures to easily make the leap from theory to practice. Teaching is so much easier and more successful when you do it the brain-friendly way. 544 pages.

Boost Learning! Boost Interanction!
Provocative sentence starters to encourage impassioned discussion about any topic. Learning Chips will have your class humming with interaction. Each set has 16 attractive, durable plastic chips. Learning Chips are a terrific way to get students interacting over the learning topic! Chips are also great for whole-class activities. Give each student one chip. Have them mix, pair, and ask a partner the question on their chip. They trade chips and find new partners to question. Questions to promote in-depth understanding of and interaction over any story.